re: #23 Kragar (Proud to be Kafir)

*ahem* Satellite communications do run at the speed of light. What causes satellite delay is that modern communications satellites are usually found in geostationary orbits. That means the signal must travel 20,000 miles to the bird and 20,000 miles back down to the receiving earth station. The round trip delay is generally around 600 to 800 milliseconds, but if there are clouds, rain, temperature inversions, haze, etc which could induce errors the delay could be a bit longer because of the retransmission of errored data packets.